International Board
RICHARD CHALFEN, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Temple University
Currently Senior Scientist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, he is past president of the American Anthropological Association's Society of Visual Anthropology. Primary research interests include home media as visual communication, indigenous media, applied visual anthropology, Japanese society and visual culture. His publications include Snapshot Versions of Life (1987), Turning Leaves (1997) and Through Navajo Eyes (co-author, 2001).
JOHN GRADY, Hannah Goldberg Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College
Past Professor of the International Visual Sociology Association, and the organization's current Secretary-Treasury, John Grady is a documentary filmmaker and an authority on the use of visual imagery in social research and analysis. His films include "Just a Fight: The Place of Violence in Men's Lives," "Home-Care: Elderly and Disabled," and "Love Stories: Women, Men and Romance." His recent scholarly articles include the essays on "Visual Sociology" in The Handbook of 21st Century Sociology, "Visual Methods" in The Encyclopedia of Sociology, and "Edward Tufte and the Promise of a Visual Social Science," in Luc Pauwels (ed.), Visual Cultures of Science . Professor Grady is also an instructor at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and the Multi-Media Editor for Visual Studies.
CATHY GREENBLAT, Visiting Researcher at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-Etienne, France, Artist Fellow, Brodsky Center, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Rutgers University
She is the author of 13 books and more than 100 published journal articles. Professor Greenblat has lectured and run workshops in the United States, South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Israel, the Philippines, China and Japan. She is listed in Who's Who in American Women, International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Who's Who of Women in Education, and American Men and Women of Science. She is the author of Alive with Alzheimer's (Chicago) one of the leading visual studies texts.
PATRICIZA FACCIOLI, Professor of Political Sciences at Forli, University of Bologna
A leading authority on the sociology of the visual communication and Theory and techniques of the mass communications, she is member of the Executive Board of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) and member of the scientific Committee of the review "Visual Studies". She is the director of the Visual Lab of the Department of Sociology of Bologna and the coeditor (with Douglas Harper) of Mondi da Vedere - Verso una Sociologia Piu' Visuale, Milano: Angeli.
DOUGLAS HARPER, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Duquesne University and Co-Director of the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy
Harper has published two visual ethnographic texts (Chicago) Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture and Working Knowledge: Skill and Community in a Small Shop. Harper has also edited or co-edited three books on visual sociology, the most recent published in Italian by Franco Angeli, Milan. He is the founding Editor of Visual Sociology, the official journal of the International Visual Sociology Association. He is also Co-Director of a 20 minute 16 mm ethnographic film on a rural sawmill, which has been shown at several festivals and conferences. His papers have appeared in French, Italian and German, and his first book has been translated and published by University Presses in France and Italy. He has published more than 30 chapters, articles and photo essays, and has been invited by more than 50 universities in the U.S. and abroad to lecture on qualitative methods.
ERIC MARGOLIS, Associate Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Arizona State University
The current President of the International Visual Sociology Association. He has been involved in visual sociology for more than thirty years as both a filmmaker and a scholar. He has written on culture and schooling, the visual ethnography in education, and is completing a book entitled, Images of the American Dream: Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education in Context.
DARREN NEWBURY, Professor of Photography, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University
Current editor of the international journal Visual Studies , Darren Newbury has a long-standing research interest in photography, photographic education and visual research methods. He has published widely in these areas, with papers in journals including: Disability and Society ; Journal of Art and Design Education ; Journalism Studies , Visual Anthropology ; British Journal of Sociology of Education ; The Curriculum Journal ; Visual Anthropology Review , Visual Communication , Visual Culture in Britain , Visual Studies . His most recent research has focused on photography in South Africa during the apartheid period (supported by awards from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council) and will be published as Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa by the University of South Africa (UNISA) Press in 2009.
KENNETH NOLLEY, Professor of English, Willamette University
An authority on documentary film, he founded Willamette's film studies program and is the senior editor of H-Film, the scholarly list for the history of film and the scholarly uses of media.
LUC PAUWELS, Professor of Communication Science and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Antwerp
Chair of the Visual Culture Research Centre and Program Director of the Master program in 'Film Studies and Visual Culture', Pauwels also serves as a Board Member of the International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) and the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Visual Studies (Routledge). He teaches and writes extensively in the areas of visual research methodologies, visual ethics, family photography, web site analysis, anthropological filmmaking, visual corporate culture, and scientific visualisation in peer reviewed international journals. One of his recent books is Visual Cultures of Science: Rethinking Representational Practices in Knowledge Building and Science Communication, Hanover and London : Dartmouth College Press - University Press of New England , 299 pp .
JON PROSSER, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Leeds University
A noted scholar of image-based research and the study of school culture, he has served as Journal Editor for Visual Sociology (1998- 2001); Visual Studies (2001 - 2002), and on the Executive Board for the International Visual Sociology Association. Prosser is also the editor of the classic text in the field, Image-Based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers.
RANDY W. ROBERTS, Professor of History, Purdue University
The author of more than a dozen books on film history and American popular culture, including the standard biography of John Wayne.
DONA SCHWARTZ, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of Minnesota and a working photographer
Among her many academic publications are two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her current photographic series, In the Kitchen, has been exhibited at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the 7th Internationale Fototage, Mannheim/Ludwigshafen, Germany, and in numerous juried exhibitions in the United States. Her work is included in the collections of the George Eastman House, Harry Ransom Center, Portland Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
JOHN STAUFFER, Professor of English and American Civilization, Harvard University
Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University, he won the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation from the American Studies Association, and has received the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the Avery Craven Book Prize from the Organization of American Historians.
